Local and indigenous knowledge systems and environmental management practices provide valuable insight and tools for tackling ecological challenges.

UNESCO: Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices

Innovation and social transformation depend on our capacity to combine disciplines and create synergies among all sciences, natural, human and social, including local and indigenous knowledge.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN KATHMANDU

UNESCO, through its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) Programme, is working to bring recognition to this issue, and to demonstrate the link between cultural and biological diversity.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples

While the benefits of local and indigenous knowledge in reducing disaster risk are increasingly being acknowledged, a challenge remains: how do you integrate such knowledge constructively with scientific knowledge and policy?

UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

The Natural Sciences Sector contributed expertise and priorities from its Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, which focuses on the diverse ways that humans know and interact with the natural world.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Enhancing participatory planning and knowledge management through its work with local and indigenous communities, in ecological sciences and on the co-production of knowledge.

UNESCO: United Nations Biodiversity Conference mobilises resources for biodiversity protection | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Another side event on recognizing indigenous and local knowledge and building synergies with science (Item 5 of the agenda) will also be organized by UNESCO.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

New forms of media can play a crucial role to capitalize the positive practices embedded in indigenous cultures by fostering synergies between modern services and local knowledge and assist communities in taking full advantages of their social assets - the knowledge, culture and governance systems.

UNESCO: Indigenous Media, Empowering Indigenous Voices